A FURTHER SELECTION Of AERIAL "CREATIONS" THAT not ever ACTUALLY TOOK TO THE AIR 1 Man with a mission.

A FURTHER SELECTION Of AERIAL "CREATIONS" THAT not ever ACTUALLY TOOK TO THE AIR

Man with a mission. This observes Angeles inventor had come up with a compages mechanism involving a large turn-table that would allow Zeppelins an easy way to moor since the mast could always be useed into the wind and the lighter-than-air vehicle would be firmly restrained between the sum of two units masts.

This rather attractive design came from the stylized drawing board of George W Walker and depicts a twin pusher "almost" flying wing. The craft had a colossal canopy frontal area which must have done well in the drag department) Main landing gear retracted into the rather small engine nacelles.

The first Douglas DC-7 was a civilianized variant of that company's C-74 Globemaster military cargo/troop hauler. During World War sum of two units Douglas began studying the possibility of making the craft into a passenger liner and in late 1945 Pan American Airways placed an order for 26 planes, to be known as DC-7 In 1947 however, Pan Am canceled the order when it became obvious that the plane's capacity was too large for the time period. Also, the military had drastically chisel back on C-74s (only 14 were built) and this proportionately increased the richness of the civil airliners.

We have no idea who was behind this creation still the name Hall is onward the fuselage and apparently the craft would utilize a screw in the upper wing for a certain number of form of vertical lift.

Aviation constituent company Fletcher Aircraft built a scarcely any of its own specialized aircraft designs in limited numbers however the FL-23 remained a paper exhibit although it was proposed to the US military as an aircraft that could be used in the

observation/light attack part as well as being an aerial ambulance.

Man with a mission #2 This design actually got to the hardware stage. Apparently conceived with a certain number of form of vertical performance in mind, the craft had a tractor screw some sort of rotor-like devices atop the central material substance and moveable airfoil shapes (flapping?). It's doubtful if the creation steady managed to hop a man and wife of inches into the air.

Another combineed wing/fuselage design was this plenteous

later Lockheed concept of a real heavy lifter that featured fuselage-style cargo seed-vessels topped with engines much like the company's L- 1011 airliner.

Man with a mission #3 This companion apparently had an idea for a mingleed wing/fuselage airliner design that would be powered by the agency of five engines. Note the cyclopean horizontal tail.

During 1955 US Army Lieutenant Colonel Robert B Rigg came up with this drawing to illustrate a "flying tank." Rigg stated flying tanks would make land mines, rivers, bridges, and ridges out of date as barriers and would virtually eliminate the military use of roads. However, Lt Col Rigg did not state for what cause this thing would be powered or what sort of powerplant would be required to vertically lift something as extremely heavy as a tank.

Man with a mission #4 JE Carroll of beholds Angeles created this "brake" device which, he claimed, would allow an airplane to land in a space twice its be in possession of length. The plane's prop would act as its possess brake when fitted with Carroll's device which, according to the inventor, "is a small motor operated according to the pilot from the rule stick and mounted in the center of the screw By pressing a small button, the aviator changes the pitch of the blades at will and when landing oversets them entirely so that they 'push' away the air instead of drawing it inward."

The Hughes Aircraft Division came up with this wild idea for a "Helibus at Hughes" which would haul passengers between central points in a city. The multiple doors are of interest as Helibuses arrive and depart from a shopping center

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